http://englishmanif.blogspot.com/2013/10/here...Tuesday, October 8, 2013Here's the Public Discourse post on the Canadian gay parenting study (and my thoughts)-- we have to learn our lessons from last yearRead through the analysis, which is very good:http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2013/10/109...My Thoughts:Knowing how much courage and skill it has taken for Mark Regnerus and Doug Allen to search for real, even if unsettling, truths about same-sex parenting, I applaud them and call on everyone to take this research seriously.Having said that, I must be honest about how it feels to be the child of a same-sex couple reading these reports. When the Regnerus one came out, I felt somewhat vindicated. I'd always known that the child of a gay parent faces peculiar challenges; it was disturbing to me that for two decades gay activists had simply used their children as a shield or a weapon in the fight for same-sex marriage, while simultaneously suffocating any such children who suffered the severe and heavy consequences of being raised in such an unusual household.Those who oppose same-sex marriage need not to repeat the mistakes of the past year. The Doug Allen study is useful but don't make this about which kinds of couples turn out better success stories. Too many times I have listened to right-wing "experts" argue that children raised by same-sex couples will have problems that the rest of society will pay for: they'll be dropouts, possibly criminals, sexually confused and needing therapy, etc.The issue here has to be the rights of children, all children. All children have these rights:1) The right to be born free, not bought or sold. This means no commercialized adoption, no child slavery, no sperm banking for pay, and no surrogacy of any kind. Obviously, it also means no abortion, no rape, and no prostitution designed for fertility tourism.2) The right to a mom and dad wherever possible. This means no divorce based on frivolous desires, no abandonment, no same-sex parenting.3) The right to know one's origins, wherever possible. This means no adoption without respect for the child's culture, no use of anonymous gamete donors, no unilateral divorces denying children knowledge of their parent, and no irresponsible sexual behavior that might result in a child being conceived and nobody knowing who the father was. Obviously, this also means no rape.Whether or not children receive high grades or go on to be law-abiding, productive citizens, they deserve the same rights as everyone else.I went to Yale but was denied a childhood with a father, for two reasons:(1) my biological father abandoned my mother, and (2) my mother, rather than focus on building a relationship between me and my father, got into a lifelong lesbian relationship and implicitly replaced my father with another woman.It's not about good grades. It's not about numbers and statistics. It's about the right of a child not to go through what I went through. We shouldn't be in the position of defining a child's rights according to high school graduation rates, median incomes, or any other statistical factor that turns people's lives into report cards.

Hope Jizzy posts again soon but he had such a bad day yesterday I think he will stay gone for a while. Then he'll come back like nothing happened saying "Sup putz?" As if that is very witty. YUK!YUK!YUK! Jizzy! Ah good times.

<quoted text>Hope Jizzy posts again soon but he had such a bad day yesterday I think he will stay gone for a while. Then he'll come back like nothing happened saying "Sup putz?" As if that is very witty. YUK!YUK!YUK! Jizzy! Ah good times.

He is a Dufus!!!Sup??? Isn't he a little old for that.No one likes him,why does thatposer even post here?Anyway,When you left for a few days, hewas calling me "Frankie" as well!I think he is a POS.I hope hecomes by today,he is fun toaggravate......I'm so sure youput a cat picture up and i'mA sock puppet !! LOL. HEwishes because I know a lotof funny stuff about him......

<quoted text>Dang If I don't live in your head rent free. You can not go for 12 hours whith out posting about me.

Too bad you Flying SpaghettiMonster freak! Why are you up so early,picking the right dressfor the day? I know you like toPop Viagra and watch the skirtraise.......What an ancient oldcreep.Why do you post here,When it's obvious that no onelikes you...Do you like to punishyourself over and over? Freaksare like that...Have a Jizzy day!

Did you learn that saying from yourGreat grandson,you cryptkeeper waste of life...I'm sure Frankieand I are one person.How Fknstupid.Our personalities wouldtell a normal person we are notthe same.I will call you a nameand poser like you will understand!You are a Maroon........Have acrappy day,Honorary Chaz Bono!

<quoted text>Too bad you Flying SpaghettiMonster freak! Why are you upso early,picking the right dressfor the day? I know you like toPop Viagra and watch the skirtraise.......What an ancient oldcreep.Why do you post here,When it's obvious that no onelikes you...Do you like to punishyourself over and over? Freaksare like that...Have a Jizzy day!

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